14. _Divini_ (sooth-sayers) are so called as if they were _Deo pleni_ (full of God); for they pretend that they are full of divinity and they guess men’s future by a deceitful cleverness. There are two sorts of [this] divination, skill and frenzy. 16. _Arioli_ (sooth-sayers) are so named because they utter their execrable prayers at the altars (_aras_) of idols and make funeral offerings, and because of their solemn observances they receive responses from demons. 23. The _genethliaci_ are so named because of their observance of natal days. They lay out men’s nativities according to the twelve constellations of heaven, and by the course of the stars endeavor to foretell the characters, deeds, and fortunes of the new-born, that is, under what sign each has been born, and what result it has for the life of him who is born. 25. At first the interpreters of the stars were called _magi_, as is read of those who announced the birth of Christ in the Gospel; later they had only the name of _mathematici_. 26. A knowledge of this art was granted up to the time of the Gospel, that when Christ was born no one after that should read the nativity of anyone from heaven. 30. To these belong also the _ligatures_, with their accursed remedies, which medical science condemns, whether in charms or in signs or in suspending and binding articles. 31. In all these the demonic art has arisen from a pestilential association of men and bad angels. Whence all must be avoided by Christians and rejected and condemned with thorough-going malediction. Chapter 10. On the heathen. 2. The Gentiles are they who are without the law and have not yet believed. Moreover they are called Gentiles because they are in their con-genital state, that is, just as in the flesh they have plunged down into sin, to wit, serving idols and not yet regenerate. Chapter 11. On the gods of the heathen. 1. They whom the pagans assert to be gods are known to have been men at one time, and in accordance with the life and services of each one they began to be worshiped among their own people after their death, as, in Egypt, Isis; in Crete, Jove; among the Moors, Juba; among the Latins, Faunus; among the Romans, Quirinus. 2. ... And in their praises the poets, too, have helped, and by writing poems have raised them up to the heavens. 3. It is said that the invention of certain arts has given rise to worship, as medicine for Aesculapius, craftsmanship for Vulcan. And they get their names from their activities, as Mercurius because he is in charge of merchandise; Liber from liberty.